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Subject: Re: genius 6

Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin

Date: 09:22:04 03/02/99

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The program has an opening tree (looks different than Fritz5.32), bigger opening
book, a larger game database, a change in the rendering of the 3d graphics
(still excellent, I don't know if better), and supports the use of other major
chess engines (Zarkov, Nimzo2000, Wchess + other's I suppose).  It also has a
Winboard adapter that you can download, but I haven't tried this yet.
Unfortunately, the engine itself is still the Genius5 one.  While still a very
strong & interesting engine, it has not been significantly improved over a
number of years, and I suppose that Hiarcs7, Fritz5, Mchess, & Rebel would
probably best it.  Still, its right up there...

The most troubling thing about the Milleneum company is that it appears they
were not honest about the engine being the same when they released the new
program, and that if Richard Lang ever does in fact figure out how to improve
his engine significantly, and releases a new 32 bit Genius, it is not being
clearly stated by Milleneum that they would not charge us for it.  That's bad
public relations to previous Genius owner's (and probably everyone else too:)),
who thought they were getting more than just a shiny new gui, when they bought
Genius6

mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!


On March 02, 1999 at 11:33:14, david pulsipher wrote:

>can any one tell me what the advantages of genius 6 are over genius 5 gold???



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